Miss Kolka

I keep seeing things on CNN that somehow I find offending. The latest is an advert often aired on the clearessence products "especially formulated for people of colour". Ok perhaps I get lost sometimes in all the political correctness of it all but an advert encouraging black people to have whiter skin somehow does not belong on a news channel. If I would be coloured would I be offended in the same way? The bottom line of the advert being "Let the real you.. shine through.." is somehow weird. Are you not the real you with your original skin colour? Or is there something more I am not understaning about having a dark skin? I know we live in a world of appearences, that the average 50 year old white male has the suppremacy of all world powers.. but still - Do we have to try to convince people of colour to become white? Exactly when people with clear skin want to become darker...

Not everybody can have the "perfect" skin of Snow white..well, anyway she is more likely to get skin cancer than the rest of us then... you can't have it all.

And the award goes to....

 

Oh yes

France 24 is one year old. We celebrated gracefully with champagne, well some were more graceful than others perhaps, We also had music, dancing, lots of laughter and more champagne.

I invite you to go and see the most crazy moments of the channel - with some very well chosen bloopers over the past year.

Some escuisite watching...

Shame it was shown yesterday - I could have contributed beautifully with my 4minute bulletin today, where lots of tiny mistakes F... up the whole thing, there is no other word. Thankfully, it went completely unnoticed!

The headline is actually better than the story itself..

there is just something about picturing the story of the day..

now you dont have to picture it - go to youtube

its priceless

Cat survives 19 days with jar on head

A cat has survived for 19 days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head.

The Cain family of Bartlett, Tennessee, have fed the feral cat, which they call Wild Oats, for several years.

They saw the cat several times with the jar on its head and tried in vain to catch it. But after not seeing it for a week, they feared the worst.

They finally found the once chubby cat, too thin and weak to flee, and used some oil to get the jar off her head. They gave her water and treated her wounds and she is eating again.

The family are know thinking of changing the cat's name to Survivor.

 

Why not give that to your 3 year old niece for christmas?

This would have been a teddy bear some people I know like Eva Kamilla and Arri would have appreciate in their days...

Macabre but sweet

Are kids too young to know about the realities of grown up life? Or is it time when they realise Santa Clause doesn't really exist? "Yes - animals are killed by cars - sometimes the one your are sitting in driving to grandma"

Maybe grown ups dont want to grow up and some still believe in fictionary things, how else do you explain the success of Harry Potter, and films like Lord of the Rings and the Golden compass? Its not all kids that go to see them - And you still believe Saddam was responsable for 9/11 and that Bush won the election in 2000- so where does that leave you?

Maybe grown-up teddy bears would be a perfect gift for christmas... not for my niece but for my75 year old grandma and myself.

Sarkozy hasn't spoken publicly for almost a week. What is going on? Radio commentators I heard this morning wondered what could cause this - now especially in the time of social crisis in France - the transport strike enters its 6th day and no meeting is planned between the government and the unions until Wednesday. In the meanwhile Civil servents such as postal workers and teachers will join the mouvement on tuesday for 24hours - so lots of people the president could try to reason with and I am sure he has a very strong opinion on the matter. The Prime Minister and employment minister consol him of course for the next steps to take but I cannot but wonder how Mr. President manages to keep silent. Maybe he could teach me a lesson...

It wasn't such a good idea to make a little joke at the workplace on a slow newsday apparently... where I asked whether we did plan anything special for the "day without Sarkozy" in the media - a small organisation is calling for the media not to quote or talk about the president the 30th of November. I think the idea is funny - and I would certainly want to know if an american outlet would try to influence the american media not to talk about Bush for one day. With the French "hyper-president" it seems more appropriate however, him being everywhere all the time - I think one day I had 3 stories in a ten minute bulletin where Sarkozy had come to the rescue, Chad, angry fishermen, wrongly accused nurses.. "le Petit Nicolas" is there. So much so that even his prime minister complained about it off-camera (or what he thought was off-camera) the other day: "he is always ahead of me.. I was going to go but he beat me to it". The real question is (and probably the reason why such a joke seems to be quite a sensitive matter) - how is the president going to decide on the future of French television landscape, will the channel survive a re-arrengement of the french media treating international news?

The decision was due in the last days.. so what can one do apart joking around?

 

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